George Nahas, DO, attending physician, and hematology and oncology specialist at Miami Cancer Institute, discusses recent and ongoing research that has impacted the current treatment landscape for patients with multiple myeloma. According to Nahas, the use of immunotherapy has proven to be beneficial in this space. Specifically, treatment with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy […]
ChromaCode Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer Assay ChromaCode has launched a non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) assay based on its High Definition PCR (HDPCR) technology for early-access customers. The assay panel detects actionable NSCLC variants in nine relevant genes using amplitude modulation and multi-spectral encoding. It requires low sample input, has reduced workflow complexity, cloud-based analysis, and can […]
Photo: Tom Eversley (Shutterstock) The World Health Organization has said three different things about aspartame this year. First, they said not to use sweeteners like aspartame for weight loss. Next, they designated aspartame, the sweetener in Diet Coke, a “possible” carcinogen. Now, the branch responsible for deciding which food additives are safe has confirmed that […]
In patients with congenital thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP), there were no acute TTP events in a preplanned interim analysis of a phase 3 study evaluating the use of recombinant ADAMTS13 (rADAMTS13) prophylaxis. Study findings were presented at the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) 2023 Congress by Marie Scully, MD, of the University College […]
Living in historically redlined neighborhoods was found to be associated with a 13% higher risk for all-cause mortality and major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE), according to the results of a study published in JAMA Network Open. The association is independent of traditional cardiovascular risk factors. Credit: santoelia – stock.adobe.com. “Even close to a century after […]
Moscow (AFP) – Russian lawmakers in the lower house of parliament on Friday voted overwhelmingly in favour of new legislation that would make gender reassignment illegal, further cementing an ultra-conservative, anti-Western drive in society. Issued on: 14/07/2023 – 14:42 2 min Advertising Read more “The State Duma banned gender reassignment in Russia,” the lower house […]
Lemuel Pitters is a technical specialist at our genetics lab, located at McMaster University Medical Centre. Here, Pitters adds chemicals to DNA samples in preparation for loading a Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) instrument, which reads DNA sequences from samples. Hamilton Regional Laboratory Medical Program Some of the most familiar faces to patients are their Hamilton […]
Aspartame, the recently identified probable carcinogen, is commonly used in diet drinks, ice creams, chewing gums since 1980s. The artificial sweetener has ben declared carcinogenic by World Health Organisation (WHO). However, WHO has also noted that there is limited evidence of carcinogenicity in humans. Aspartame, used in Coca Diet Soda among other beverages, remains safe […]
Currently, the low incidence rate and high heterogeneity hindered further investigation of GNEC [15]. Thus, we created and validated a nomogram to predict the 1-, 3-, and 5-year CSS of surgical GNEC patients based on the SEER database. The model demonstrated improved prediction ability compared with the 8th AJCC criteria. We then developed a novel […]
Approximately, 1.7 million individuals develop health-care-associated infections (HAIs) every year, translating to a 4.5 percent prevalence rate in the United States.1 Health-care-associated infections are among the leading causes of death in the U.S as 90,000 to 99,000 die annually from HAIs, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It is not surprising that HAIs […]